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Shashwat

@brownkidnumber2.bsky.social
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queer & agender leftist — any pronouns nursing student on unceded algonquin territory ("Ottawa"). Interests include: science, tech, videogames, anime, photography, film, martial arts, etc.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
507 people in 2024 murder by policy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Deaths of people experiencing homelessness on rise for 5th year, B.C. Coroner data shows | CBC News
More than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Google didn't just add AI to Google Earth—it briefly turned one of the world's most trusted sources of evidence into a generator of plausible fakes. shirin anlen & Sam Gregory from WITNESS on a foreseeable fiasco, and why tech firms must consult civil society experts before launch, not after.
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Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts
It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Idk why city planners think people will just follow signs. People follow the speed a road is designed for, not an arbitrary number.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
real, I hate our productivity culture.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
whoaa, catalysis with abundant hydrocarbons instead of rare minerals??
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I wish my flowers were hotels for frogs, instead they are infested with Japanese beetles 😕
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We're often told that capitalism and market liberalisation are closing the gap between rich and poor countries, and the old colonial inequalities are fading. Is it true? We explored this question in a new paper, just published in NPE. Buckle up for some interesting results! 🧵
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I think Gladlands is gonna be my favorite season of Dimension 20. This week's episode is so sweet and real.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I love that The Pitt S2 has a new graduate nurse character, haven't really seen a medical drama follow a new nurse b4. I have only heard of one or two.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
What!!! That's so cool
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Oh god they might be messing it up
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Man they really put all the budget of OPM season 3 into Orochi lol
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
💔 Over 460 patients & companions were murdered in El Fasher’s Saudi Maternity Hospital after an #RSF takeover. @who.int DG @drtedros.who.int: “Appalled & deeply shocked.” ❗Healthcare must never be a target. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @unicef.org @icrc.org
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WHO 'Appalled' By Murder Of 460 Patients In Sudanese Maternity Hospital - Health Policy Watch
Healthworkers said that the gunmen, from the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF), burst into the hospital and opened fire without warning, WION reports.  The RSF
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Oh man Spy x Family got heavy. Can't complain about an anti-war anime though, I hope it doesn't mess it up.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This explains so much about *gestures broadly *
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
What a gorgeous color!
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
So surprising... /s
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#CancelCanadaDay
Image of an orange poster stuck with to a textured black wall. The middle of the poster contains a graphic of fireworks with a no symbol. Above the graphic it reads: "Please No Fireworks On July 1st!" Underneath the graphic, it reads: "Consider not celebrating colonialism, land theft, & genocide. This, or any 'Canada Day'. Miigwech, Nya:Weh. Every Child Matters. Show your solidarity with the Indigenous community."
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
There is no “but Hamas”—no history, ideology, or nuance that can justify the gleeful, gamified slaughter of starving children. No nation on earth has “the right” to exist. But human beings have the right to live in safety.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
After making a speech to graduates, Manitoba's accessibility and gender equality minister Nahanni Fontaine was recorded talking about the American Sign Language interpreter who shared the stage with her, saying the interpreter was distracting.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Manitoban minister of accessibility told her ASL interpreter to leave the stage during her speech because it was "distracting". The jokes write themselves.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18/06/2025
When Politicians Play Doctor, People Die thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/06/18/Polit… @thetyee.ca 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca
Man stands in front of banner: "16 000 DEAD SAFE SUPPLY"
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/06/2025
First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people. Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat. As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Was watching Masterchef Australia and got rly confused when they called the starter an entrée. Apparently outside of the US and Anglophone Canada, "entrée" means appetizer and not the main course 😭
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
6 children born in Ontario with congenital measles. This is preventable through vaccination. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Six infants born with congenital measles in Ontario from unvaccinated mothers
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not ...
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
👏🏽👏🏽
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Fae Johnstone @faejohnstone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The Manitoba legislature has passed Bill 43, adding gender expression to the provincial human rights code. In this doom and gloom climate, it's important to mark victories like this, to remember that despite the rise of the far right, we can still organize and win for 🏳️‍🌈 people.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/06/2025
Greta Thunberg responds to an apparent threat by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who said the activists sailing to Gaza would need to "swim." "It says a lot about their priorities that, in the face of genocide and systematic starvation of 2 million people, lawmakers … are focusing on mocking people."
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Corey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Fentanyl is a molecule, it does not compel people to use it and if it suddenly disappeared from the unregulated drug supply, people would still use drugs. Interdiction is a game of whack-a-mole: fix your gaze on fentanyl too long, then nitazenes arrive. stories.northernhealth.ca/news/drug-ad...
Northern Health has issued a drug advisory for the Northern Health region. A round white pill sold as "Oxycocet" has tested positive for isotonitazene.
Isotonitazene or "Nitazene" is a synthetic opioid that is equal or more toxic than fentanyl and is not detected on fentanyl test strips.
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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Funniest detail to me re: Thom Yorke's weird relationship to Israel is that it's the first place Creep really took off so Israel kinda launched Radiohead's career. Israeli music fans could not get enough of a song that asks "what the hell am I doing here" and answers with "I don't belong here."
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bikeview.ca @bikeviewca.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Another death today on #autowa roads @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social. A person in a wheelchair on Industrial going from Perley Health to the Trainyards. How many deaths and injuries to those outside a vehicle this week??
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"When we first published our strategy in 2019, 15 locations across the City exceeded our air quality objective for toxic nitrogen dioxide. Last year this figure was down to two."
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Cycling in City of London rises by more than 50% - BBC News
Cycling in the Square Mile has increased by more than 50% in two years, official counts say.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Whoa, this is a really interesting idea for rural areas and patients requiring immediate care.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Literally changing nothing but paying major polluters more money?
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Toronto is rolling out "EPR" in 2026, they are outsourcing recycling to a company called Circular Materials, who's Board of Directors consists of members from the major polluters 😐
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“The three individuals who ran that DEI office in the medical faculty — all of whom are members of racialized minorities — are being replaced by a single person who does not come from such a minority background” Why are Canadian institutions bending a knee and complying in advance?
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Exclusive: McGill closes DEI office, replaces racialized staff
Meanwhile, medical program put under probation for failed diversity targets
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 20/04/2025
Nearly a decade after Ottawa pledged safe drinking water for all First Nations, promise remains unfulfilled www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @nut-graf.bsky.social & Willow Fiddler 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
Empty water jugs hang outside a home on Oct. 26, 2020, in Neskantaga First Nations. The community stands as the country’s longest-standing boil-water advisory and a vivid reminder of a broken Liberal promise as election day approaches.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NEW: In the latest episode of the YouTube series I host, @lhn.bsky.social joins me to get into the nitty gritty of surveillance against protesters and steps you can take to protect yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...
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How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 16/04/2025
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Medical organizations, patients raise concerns about health not taking centre stage in federal election campaign
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions points to the nation-wide shortages of health care providers as key issues requiring solutions
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
What an absolutely dominant performance by Patty Pimblett
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Mom was laughing about how I went to a palestine rally, watched a movie, watched a cooking show, a medical drama, and then UFC LMAO. I don't lie when I say I have a lot of interests 😭
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I have started to build the confidence to ask bluntly to make sure I understand correctly 😭
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Never liked BMI. Waist circumference is an interesting metric to consider when measuring obesity.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is such an avoidable problem. Just sad to see.
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Shashwat @brownkidnumber2.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
HAPPY FEET WAS DIRECTED BY GEORGE MILLER?? LIKE THE MAD MAX GUY???
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